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    Four New Crewmates Adjust to Station Life Following Crew-9 Return

    NASA astronaut and Expedition 72 Flight Engineer Suni Williams peers at the Earth below from inside the International Space Station's cupola. The orbital outpost was soaring 260 miles above the Indian Ocean at the time of this photograph.

    Four Expedition 72 crewmates are getting used to life aboard the International Space Station following their arrival on Saturday and the departure of the SpaceX Crew-9 mission on Tuesday. Meanwhile, a U.S. cargo craft is poised to be released from the orbital outpost ending a seven-and-a-half-month stay.

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    NASA’s SpaceX Crew-9 Splashes Down Off Coast of Florida

    NASA astronauts Nick Hague, Suni Williams, and Butch Wilmore, and Roscosmos cosmonaut Aleksandr Gorbunov have successfully splashed down in the Gulf of America, off the coast of Tallahassee, Florida, at 5:57 p.m. EDT.  Hague and Gorbunov have been at the International Space Station since  Sept. 29, 2024, while Williams and Wilmore arrived on June 6. This...

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    NASA’s SpaceX Crew-9 Return Continues, Dragon Completes Deorbit Burn

    SpaceX’s Dragon spacecraft completed its deorbit burn at 5:18 p.m. EDT.   NASA astronauts Nick Hague, Suni Williams, and Butch Wilmore, and Roscosmos cosmonaut Aleksandr Gorbunov are less than an hour away from a splashdown off the coast of Florida.  Four minutes before splashdown, the drogue parachutes will deploy at about 18,000 feet in altitude...

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    NASA’s SpaceX Crew-9 Prepares for Deorbit Burn

    Image shows astronaut in their suits inside the International Space Station

    NASA’s SpaceX Crew-9 crew members are moments away from a deorbit burn on their journey from the International Space Station to Earth.  The SpaceX Dragon spacecraft, carrying NASA astronauts Nick Hague, Suni Williams, and Butch Wilmore, and Roscosmos cosmonaut Aleksandr Gorbunov, undocked from the space station at 1:05 a.m. EDT March 18.  The deorbit burn,...

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    NASA’s SpaceX Crew-9: Crew Preparing for Splashdown

    Image shows NASA astronauts in Dragon spacecraft

    Live NASA+ coverage is underway as agency astronauts Nick Hague, Suni Williams, and Butch Wilmore, along with Roscosmos cosmonaut Aleksandr Gorbunov, are about one hour away from splashing down aboard the SpaceX Dragon spacecraft. Learn how to watch NASA content through a variety of platforms, including social media. The deorbit burn is scheduled to begin...

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    Live on NASA+: Dragon Prepares to Undock With Four SpaceX Crew-9 Members

    NASA's SpaceX Crew-9 members pose together for a portrait inside the SpaceX Dragon crew spacecraft docked to the International Space Station. From left, are NASA astronaut Suni Williams, Roscosmos cosmonaut Aleksandr Gorbunov, and NASA astronauts Nick Hague and Butch Wimore.

    NASA’s live coverage of the agency’s SpaceX Crew-9 undocking now is underway on NASA+. At 11:05 p.m. EDT on March 17, the crew closed the hatch between the SpaceX Dragon spacecraft and the International Space Station in preparation for undocking and the return of NASA astronauts Nick Hague, Suni Williams, and Butch Wilmore, along with Roscosmos cosmonaut Aleksandr Gorbunov, to Earth. 

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